Author: Jillian Hart
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 1472022653
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 211
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Rancher Justin Granger hasn't seen his high school sweetheart since she rode out of town with his heart. Now, "too good for this small town" Rori Cornell stands on his doorstep, seeking a job as his cook and housekeeper.
Author: Christy Jeffries
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008910073
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Finding love is the easy part... Building a family is the challenge
Author: Jillian Hart
Publisher:
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Category : Christian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Big sky family : Montana single mom Ellie James and rancher Arnie O'Brien decide if their shared past can allow for a shared future.
Author: Brenda Harlen
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008910154
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 243
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When it comes to love and family He’ll risk everything
Author: Brenda Minton
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 1474069673
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Her Texas Homecoming
Author: Paul K. Conkin
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 081313868X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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At a time when food is becoming increasingly scarce in many parts of the world and food prices are skyrocketing, no industry is more important than agriculture. Humans have been farming for thousands of years, and yet agriculture has undergone more fundamental changes in the past 80 years than in the previous several centuries. In 1900, 30 million American farmers tilled the soil or tended livestock; today there are fewer than 4.5 million farmers who feed a population four times larger than it was at the beginning of the century. Fifty years ago, the planet could not have sustained a population of 6.5 billion; now, commercial and industrial agriculture ensure that millions will not die from starvation. Farmers are able to feed an exponentially growing planet because the greatest industrial revolution in history has occurred in agriculture since 1929, with U.S. farmers leading the way. Productivity on American farms has increased tenfold, even as most small farmers and tenants have been forced to find other work. Today, only 300,000 farms produce approximately ninety percent of the total output, and overproduction, largely subsidized by government programs and policies, has become the hallmark of modern agriculture. A Revolution Down on the Farm: The Transformation of American Agriculture since 1929 charts the profound changes in farming that have occurred during author Paul K. Conkin's lifetime. His personal experiences growing up on a small Tennessee farm complement compelling statistical data as he explores America's vast agricultural transformation and considers its social, political, and economic consequences. He examines the history of American agriculture, showing how New Deal innovations evolved into convoluted commodity programs following World War II. Conkin assesses the skills, new technologies, and government policies that helped transform farming in America and suggests how new legislation might affect farming in decades to come. Although the increased production and mechanization of farming has been an economic success story for Americans, the costs are becoming increasingly apparent. Small farmers are put out of business when they cannot compete with giant, non-diversified corporate farms. Caged chickens and hogs in factory-like facilities or confined dairy cattle require massive amounts of chemicals and hormones ultimately ingested by consumers. Fertilizers, new organic chemicals, manure disposal, and genetically modified seeds have introduced environmental problems that are still being discovered. A Revolution Down on the Farm concludes with an evaluation of farming in the twenty-first century and a distinctive meditation on alternatives to our present large scale, mechanized, subsidized, and fossil fuel and chemically dependent system.
Author: Effie Price Gladding
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Category : Automobile travel
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Category : Wayne County (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Author: Charles Austin Beard
Publisher: Oxford City Press
ISBN: 9781781390856
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Charles Austin Beard (1874-1948) with his wife Mary were highly influential historians in the first half of the 20th century. Their works had a major impact on American historians. This book was written in 1921 and is still one of the most interesting books on the History of the United States. It was originally written as a textbook, and consequently is a good introduction to American History from its founding to the 19th Century. It discusses history in a mixture of a chronological and thematic manner, and therefore offers the reader insights into events that one may not have otherwise connected. It contains an index, footnotes, tables of populations and Presidents, copious illustrations and a Topical Syllabus.
Author: Clarence Darrow
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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The Story of my Life is an autobiography by Clarence Darrow. Darrow was an American attorney who became famed during the early 20th century for his contribution in the Leopold and Loeb murder trial and the Scopes "Monkey" Trial. He was also a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union.
